The Fall of Hong Kong
Subtitle: Britain, China, and the Japanese Occupation
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: June 10, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780300093520
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: Second World War; Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; War & defence operations; Second World War, 1939-1945; History - Military / War; History: World; Hong Kong; Asia - China; Military - World War II; World - Colonial Studies; History / Military / World War II; General; History; Hong Kong (China); Siege, 1941; Transfer of Sovereignty from G; Transfer of Sovereignty from Great Britain, 1997
First sentence: One September evening at the beginning of the 1930s the novelist Stella Benson was entertained by the Governor, Sir William Peel, at Government House in Hong Kong.
Description: "On Christmas Day 1941 the Japanese captured Hong Kong, and Britain lost control of its Chinese colony for almost four years. The Japanese occupation was a turning point in the slow historical process by which the British were to be expelled from the colony and from four centuries of influence in East Asia. In this definitive account of the wartime history of Hong Kong, Philip Snow unravels the dramatic story of the occupation from the viewpoint of all the key players - the Hong Kong Chinese, the British, the Japanese and the mainland Chinese - and reinterprets the subsequent evolution of the colony in the light of this half-buried episode."--Jacket.